Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANTThere is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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